nice write up

 

Here's mine I did last night...thinking about trying incandescent blue bulbs to get rid of the hotspots. Turned out nice though overall I think.
WARNING: Do not put acetone on the gear shift selector piece; it just makes it a clear piece of plastic lol that's why you don't see that piece in my picture. I just painted it black for the time being until I can get another one to replace it :o

 

you acetoned the back of your cluster? what all did you have to do to get just the cluster itself out to acetone it? and the needles, are they "off" like not accurate in any way? and also what bulbs did you use? not the socket, but the color.

 

I took the dash pieces out, like raptor described in his OP, then took out the cluster. I then removed the overlay from the cluster. On the back of the overlay, over the numbers on the tach, speedo, gas, temp, oil pressure, and battery gauges is a white film that I scraped off with a knife (kinda like scratching a lottery ticket...different than the 97-98 overlays that raptor showed earlier). After that, the green tint was bare and could be acetoned. Then I used 3m spray adhesive and placed it back onto the cluster.
As for the needles, they're all accurate except my gas gauge...I guess I wasn't careful enough putting it back where it should've been. It should be reading full in that picture above - I had just filled up.
How I kept the needles accurate:
Before starting, I took pics of where all the needles were after about 5 mins. of idling the truck. Then I started the disassembly, being very careful not to rotate the needles as I removed them. For the speedometer, I rested it firmly on the little "nipple" that it rests on and pryed it off with a flat head screwdriver...it is very important that you don't rotate the needle while removing it. When I put it back on, I rested it back on that same nipple and placed it back in its place.
Sorry I didn't take pics :o

 

This pic shows the white coating on the back of the overlay I was describing in my previous post.

 

and the green tint underneath

 

man that stinks! the truck i pulled my tach'ed cluster out of had the selector peice and I have a stick shift so I scrapped the gear selector. figured i would have never needed it

 

what color bulbs did you go with? and anyone happen to know what that "white film" is?
i'm trying to get my cluster to be white like this one

 

I used blue LEDs...you'll need to scrape that white film off and the green tint; otherwise, your white LEDs will just be a brighter green than what you have now.

 

I'd say you should try to find some hyper white incandescent lights to get the white you want without the hot spots...and I'm not sure what the white film is on there for; couldn't tell that it really did anything.

 

thanks man i appreciate it!

 

well the peice is molded in clear plastic, so if you stripped the green tint off, then all you would need is white LEDs and your good to go.

 

the white stuff prevents the HOT SPOTS its helps defuse the light if you look at the pic above youll see that more light will make it though the top (by the 1)than the bottom zero

 

So could you just put like scotch tape where that film was?

 

Can I swap a standard gauge package with a gauge package with a tachometer?